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Organizing Cools The Planet

Organizing Cools The Planet offers a challenge to all concerned
about the ecological crisis: find your frontline. This booklet weaves
together stories, analysis, organizing tools, and provocative questions,
to offer a snapshot of the North American Climate Justice movement and
provide pathways for readers to participate in it. Authors share hard
lessons learned, reflect on strategy, and grapple with the challenges of
their roles as organizers who do not come from “frontline communities”
but work to build a movement big enough for everyone and led by the
priorities and solutions of low-income people, communities of color,
Indigenous, youth, and other constituencies most directly impacted by
the crisis. Rooted in the authors’ experiences organizing in local,
national, and international arenas, they challenge readers to look at
the scale of ecological collapse with open eyes, without falling prey to
disempowering doomsday narratives. This booklet is for anyone who wants
to build a movement with the resiliency to navigate one of the most
rapid transitions in human history.

“There is no task more urgent than to organize a mass popular
movement to deal effectively with the looming environmental crisis. The
barriers are high, the forces opposed powerful. All the more reason to
dedicate ourselves to the kinds of efforts outlined Joshua Kahn Russell
and Hilary Moore’s booklet.” —Noam Chomsky